Show A novel prison in the primitive days of missouri the only buildings at mt sterling the county seat of gasconade wre log store and a log court house with one room during court week accommodations for man were found at aunt bookies in choso whoso house of three rooms a anar ter of a mile from the court house sixty or seventy persona would lodge and board her bill of faro sweetened with molasses molas sex biscuits mado from coarse dark flour and baked until as hard as billiard balls bacon venison ami wild turkey those choso whoso teeth could not crack the were supplied with corn dodgers the penalties imposed for crimes were light except in the case of horse stealing which being the greatest of crimes was ned by forty lathos on the back ou one occasion a man was convicted fur some off inse alie judge sentenced him to pay a fine of a and imprisonment in the county jail for two hours the man at once the fine abutai there was no county jail the sheriff was at a loss how to execute the rest of the sentence his invention however found out a method seeing an old crate in which crockery had been brought from st louis he placed it in the court house then making making the culprit get under it he summoned a posse of four fat men to sit upon it and in this stylo carried out the sentence the bystanders were much amused wd so quizzed the poor prisoner that as soon as ho was released he fled rom the county i |